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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.

Michel de Montaigne

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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Give Him Importance Love Man Reason
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Bird Cage Desperate Get Inside Like Marriage One Out Outside Quality See
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Christianity Country Native Perigold Same Title
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Choose Conscience Honor Lose Person Rather
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Create Entire Higher Likeness Lower World
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Companion Craggy Facility Reject Require Rough Thorny Virtue Way
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Answer Express Feel Love Man Myself Urge Wherefore
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Courtesy Much Often Seenm People Tiresome Uncivil
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Age Criminal Dangerous Educational Gentle Law Leave Libeert One Strict Youth

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